Alright, as promised - some photos from a not often seen vantage point - the 43rd floor of 200 Public Square (built in 1985 as the SOHIO building - get it, "So High Oh"?) Special thanks to Kathleen and Sam from Harbor Management Group. This helped me achieve a goal - I've now been to the top (or darn close to) of all four of Cleveland's buildings over 500 feet.

 

To everyone viewing this - these photos are not posted to be a "free for all" stock photography source. It's fine to use one as your desktop background, but using ANY of these photos for any other non-personal use constitutes violation of federal copyright laws. I hate to sound like a crabby b@stard, but a lot of people don't seem to understand the severity of copyright violation.

 

That said, hope you enjoy - there are captions and even more pics to be added later but I have to take a breather.

 

Some music to set the mood:

 

The original two teaser pics, from the corner of Hinckley Industrial Parkway and Schaaf Road:

 

 

200 Public Square:

 

Model of the building in the management offices - note the faded arrow, that's where the following images were taken:

 

What better way to start than with the Terminal Tower?

 

Of course, Key Tower isn't too shabby either:

 

 

West Bank of the Flats, including Stonebridge

 

Downtown Lakewood on the left, Rocky River in the middle (pinkish building and white church spire) Lakewood's Gold Coast on the right and heavy industry way off in the distance near Lorain:

 

West 14th Street, main artery through the Tremont neighborhood:

 

The soon-to-be rehabbed/replaced Innerbelt bridge in the foreground, Tremont in the middle and the Industrial Valley in the background:

 

Five of the bridges along the Cuyahoga and the Goodtime III sightseeing boat:

 

The tippy-top of the Terminal Tower:

 

Midway up, crews are restoring the masonry:

 

Thermal heating plant in the foreground, Lorain-Carnegie and Innerbelt bridges in the middle, Tremont and Industrial Valley in the background:

 

The Stockyards neighborhood - southwest of downtown:

 

St. Michael's Church and MetroHealth Medical Center in the foreground, Old Brooklyn and Deaconess Hospital in the background:

 

Landmark Office Towers in the center:

 

Terminal Tower, with Ohio City in the background:

 

I tried to bundle the "ugly" shots - the long-underdeveloped Scranton Road Peninsula:

 

Parking lots (at various times slated for development, but thanks to the economy, who knows) in the heart of downtown:

 

The Warehouse District and the mouth of the Cuyahoga in the background:

 

Straight down from the 43rd:

 

Public Square:

 

The Group Plan - the greenspaces are Mall A, B, and C (from foreground to background):

 

The Cuyahoga County Courthouse and Cleveland Browns Stadium:

 

The Group Plan, with North Coast Harbor in the background:

 

A portion of Mall B (currently displaying a public art exhibit) and Mall A with the War Memorial Fountain:

 

Quicken Loans Arena, dead center

 

AT&T Huron Road building and Progressive Field:

 

Blast furnace at Arcelor-Mittal:

 

More Industrial Valley:

 

Eastern Tremont and the Industrial Valley:

 

Central Tremont - St. John Cantius church and Tremont Elementary School:

 

Eagle Avenue bridge, locked permanently in the "up" position:

 

AT&T Huron Road building

 

World Headquarters of the United Church of Christ:

 

668 Euclid, being renovated into apartments:

 

The Marcel Breuer-designed Cleveland Trust Tower - another development project being hampered by the current economy:

 

Aerial view of Euclid Avenue, home to the Healthline (BRT route), with University Circle in the background:

 

University Circle:

 

Hough and East Cleveland:

 

Fifth-Third Bank, the Superior Building (neoclassic with dish on roof) and Eaton Center:

 

One Cleveland Center (silver chisel) and the Tower at Erieview:

 

1211 St. Clair, the condo tower component of the Avenue District development:

 

The southeastern CBD:

 

Northeastern CBD:

 

A little more north:

 

The cylindrical building is the Louis Stokes wing of the Cleveland Public Library - in the lower middle is the glass skylight of the Arcade:

 

The War Memorial Fountain:

 

tease! :whip:

View from Metro?

Happy with it so far!! I love that song.

Yeah, but I didn't even get through the intro before I ran out of pics! :wink:

Alright folks, check it out now :-)

EXCELLENT!!!!!

Great photos. Great song from a great album. Still waiting for album #2, but Ben Gibbard is busy with his day job in Deathcab for Cutie. Guess I'll look at those pictures again.

I shite you not, I am standing on the roof of Joshua Hall with 2 other people when you took the photo of the Breuer Tower close up!  Just to the right of the arched entrance into Gray's Armory.  Funny stuff.

Also, what is that thing in the distance when you are shooting over Lakewood.  I remember being able to see that from the observation deck on the Terminal Tower.  Steel mill in Lorain perhaps?

Nice billboard!

 

 

Wow! Those knocked my socks off! Somebody told me yesterday it was time I changed them, anyway.

Ha!  Somehow I have never caught that UO billboard from the innerbelt  :wink:

 

PHENOMENAL SET!

Alright, as promised - some photos from a not often seen vantage point - the 43rd floor of 200 Public Square (built in 1985 as the SOHIO building - get it, "So High Oh"? Special thanks to Kathleen and Sam from Harbor Management Group.

 

To everyone viewing this - these photos are not posted to be a "free for all" stock photography source. It's fine to use one as your desktop background, but using ANY of these photos for any other non-personal use constitutes violation of federal copyright laws.

 

That said, hope you enjoy - there are captions and even more pics to be added later but I have to take a breather.

 

Some music to set the mood:

 

 

 

memories...like the corner of my mind.....

 

That could have been my office on the 38 floor.

Reminds me of Phoenix.

WOW, nice pictures!!!!!!  Although, I was a little disappointed cause I thought you had some crazy major development announcement or something......

Great pics!  I must visit Cleveland sometime.

I sh!te you not, I am standing on the roof of Joshua Hall with 2 other people when you took the photo of the Breuer Tower close up!  Just to the right of the arched entrance into Gray's Armory.  Funny stuff.

Also, what is that thing in the distance when you are shooting over Lakewood.  I remember being able to see that from the observation deck on the Terminal Tower.  Steel mill in Lorain perhaps?

 

Yes, I was aware of a forumer's presence ;-)

 

 

Yep, the "steel mill" is some sort of facility (I'm sure someone will know), just east of downtown Lorain.

I sh!te you not, I am standing on the roof of Joshua Hall with 2 other people when you took the photo of the Breuer Tower close up!  Just to the right of the arched entrance into Gray's Armory.  Funny stuff.

Also, what is that thing in the distance when you are shooting over Lakewood.  I remember being able to see that from the observation deck on the Terminal Tower.  Steel mill in Lorain perhaps?

 

Yes, I was aware of a forumer's presence ;)

 

 

Yep, the "steel mill" is some sort of facility (I'm sure someone will know), just east of downtown Lorain.

 

Way cool and freaky at the same time that W28 was out while the HBIC was snapping pics.

 

God I miss that building!

wow, that was great!!!!! thanks

What is the story on the eagle ave bridge.  I started googling it and found this:

 

http://earmarks.omb.gov/authorization_earmarks/earmark_186718.html

 

Are there plans for it?

 

Really great photo's...

HA!  Awesome!

Fan-freakin-tastic!

Reminds me of Phoenix.

 

 

 

 

The steel mill in the distance is the site of Republic Engineered Products'  Lorain Hot Rolled Bar Plant (western half) and U.S. Steel's Lorain Tubular mill (eastern section).  The massive complex is 2 1/2 miles from west to east, and nearly a half mile north-south at some points.

 

Aerial image from Google maps: http://tinyurl.com/pwjf9k

You good people didn't think THAT was it, did you? ;-)

 

Industrial Valley in the foreground, suburban office towers of Independence in the background:

 

Power plants and highrise residential along the eastern Lakefront:

 

 

These happy fellas live (and feast - as I saw the leftovers) up here among the clouds:

 

The highrises of Cleveland State University, the odd mix of old and new lowrises to the east:

 

 

The small pile of rubble in the center foreground - site of the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Transit Center; in the background, the horrifically auto-centric gas station/fast-food corridor of Carnegie Avenue:

 

Most of the Cleveland Clinic's campus - center:

 

Some of the many warehouses that make up the live/work arts district:

 

Dead center - a shoutout to Josaphat Arts Hall (formerly St. Josaphat church) http://www.josaphatartshall.com/introduction/

 

Icons of Tremont - steel mills, the onion domes of St. Theodosius, the Gospel Press Building (under renovation) and the ubiquitous townhomes with rooftop decks in Tremont Ridge:

 

If you work for Cargill salt, you arrive here, take an elevator ride 1/4th of a mile down and then go out into the two to three miles of tunnels carved out under Lake Erie.

 

I know none of these interest you, but I might post some more in the near future ;-)

 

Great set.  Loved them, and the mood music too!

Great pics. I really like seeing the Burnham malls all at once. Very beautiful green space.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.  Seriously, I LOVE all of your Cleveland threads.  I loved this so much.

Man UO really has been ponying up for the billboard space these days :lol:

 

I know none of these interest you, but I might post some more in the near future ;-)

 

 

Nah, i wouldnt waste your time posting any more pictures, i doubt anyone looks at this garbage anyway  :-D

 

Great pictures!! Cleveland looks so great from that high up!

Superawesomefantastic!  More coming, you say?

Reminds me of Phoenix.

 

Ugh.

 

Reminds me of Phoenix.

 

 

Easy guys, it was sarcasm.

Reminds me of Phoenix.

 

Ugh.

 

Reminds me of Phoenix.

 

 

Easy guys, it was sarcasm.

On UO sarcasm=love.  :laugh:

Amazing collection.

Great set. I can't wait to use them in my new book called "Pictures from On Top of the 200 Public Square Building"

 

I'll send you a copy at cost.... :evil:

anyone know how to get all that distracting rights reserved yadda-yadda on the bottom right off in photoshop?  muwahaha :evil: :laugh:

^Pffft - imagine my surprise when I saw one of my photos (not so subtly cropped to remove the copyright watermark) being used at one of the new restaurants out at Hopkins - *without* my permission. Yes, oh yes - they'll be hearing from me. :evil:

no kidding? whoa. sounds like you're about at the point gonna need a lawyer. yeah go get'em!

These are beautiful mayday!  Keep them coming.

Great set, MayDay!

^Pffft - imagine my surprise when I saw one of my photos (not so subtly cropped to remove the copyright watermark) being used at one of the new restaurants out at Hopkins - *without* my permission. Yes, oh yes - they'll be hearing from me. :evil:

 

Is it a good restaurant? Maybe free meals for you and your SO for an extended amount of time?

^Pffft - imagine my surprise when I saw one of my photos (not so subtly cropped to remove the copyright watermark) being used at one of the new restaurants out at Hopkins - *without* my permission. Yes, oh yes - they'll be hearing from me. :evil:

 

Is it a good restaurant? Maybe free meals for you and your SO for an extended amount of time?

 

I say hire Elle Woods and sue!

Wow! I can only imagine what that looks like at night. Beautiful pics!

legit set.

Fantastic photos!

Wow.  What a great place too shoot.  You really captured the feel of the city from the sky. Nice!

Fascinating!

Beee-uuuu-teee-ful

Just saw these..  In one photo to the east... You can clearly see where the Allegheny Plateau begins to rise.